Geekbench 7 Performance of Huawei Mate 90 Pro Max and Kirin 9050 Pro Revealed

Huawei Mate 90 Pro Max and new Kirin 9050 Pro performance revealed in Geekbench 7 tests. Here are the technical details and results of the new processor.

Mate 90 Pro Max, one of the most powerful members of Huawei's new flagship Mate 90 series, was displayed in Geekbench 7 tests with the new Kirin 9050 Pro performance developed by the company. This new chipset stands out as an important step taken by Huawei towards its technological independence goals.

Huawei chose to keep the technical details of its new processor limited at the time of launch. However, the resulting benchmark results provide concrete data about the CPU structure and clock speeds of the Kirin 9050 Pro.

Processor test results were below expectations

Mate 90 Pro Max scored an average of 1,317 points in single-core operations in Geekbench 7 tests, and reached 5,381 points in multi-core operations. The highest results on the platform were recorded at 1,528 and 6,169 points, respectively.

These data show that the processor performance of Kirin 9050 Pro is positioned at a point between Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, released in 2021, and its successor, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Compared to today's modern flagship processors, the new chipset seems to be far behind.

For example, Qualcomm's new flagship chipset, Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, can achieve around 3,500 single-core and 12,000 multi-core scores on the same test platform. This reveals that Huawei still has a serious distance to cover to catch up with the competition on the hardware side.

Kirin 9050 Pro specifications and production process

Geekbench records detail that the Kirin 9050 Pro has a nine-core CPU design. There is one Prime Ultra core in the processor running at 3.1 GHz.

In addition to this main core, there are a total of six performance cores operating at 2.7 GHz and 2.2 GHz. The structure is completed with two efficiency cores running at 1.75 GHz.

On the graphics side, Huawei uses the six-core Maleoon 955 GPU. The clock speed of this graphics unit is listed as 1.05 GHz.

Huawei has not yet made a comprehensive statement about the architecture or manufacturing process of the chipset. In contrast, a report by Bernstein Research suggests that the Kirin 9050 Pro was developed by SMIC with a 7 nm class manufacturing process.

The report states that the chip may have been produced with one of SMIC's N+2 or N+3 production technologies. However, it should be noted that these technical details have not been officially confirmed by Huawei.

Kirin 9050 Pro is used only in the top segment models of the Mate 90 series. Of the four new Mate 90 models introduced in the Chinese market, only the Pro Max and RS versions come with this new processor.

US sanctions have greatly restricted Huawei's access to advanced foreign chip technologies. For this reason, the company is making intense efforts to develop its own processor ecosystem. Although Kirin 9050 Pro is a step towards technological independence in this difficult period, its performance results clearly summarize the current situation.